[SLE] I thought root could do anything...

Dylan writes:

Could someone disabuse me of whatever I've got awry here:

I have a bunch of files with rwxrwx--- permissions (x only on scripts!) owned by dylan group dandg.

group dandg covers only my boyfriend and I, and the files are our personal stuff (hence 'other' has no read access) They are in a directory with the same properties/ownership.

NOW, I cannot do file ops on these as root. I thought root was exempt. It can delete files with rw-rw-r--, afterall.

man lsattr man chattr When I was hacked once the script kiddies did some trick like this that prevented me from deleting files. Is the filesystem ext2? There might be a similar tool for reiser.